Brokeback Mountain over Crash

It was frickin' 1994.

To add to that same year, replace Gladiator with any other movie nominated, and that's including Erin Brockovich.

Philadelphia was released one year earlier, and covered AIDS much more than Forrest Gump.

Horrible

He wasn't nominated.

Certainly. But it's not like Philadelphia wrapped it up and put it away.

I love Forest Gump, but that part of the movie is very minor at best.

We experienced the movie differently.

It's like the last 10 minutes of the movie, so yep, I agree.

Is that not part of the movie? Did the director just say "fuck it" in the last ten minutes?

Not saying that at all, but to say that AIDS was a major part of the film is reaching.

I agree. It was not a major theme for the movie.

At that time and place, it was fairly eye-opening to have a lead character, particularly female, suffering from AIDS. It was not ground-breaking, but it was certainly a surprise.

There it is, finally.

Ralph Fiennes for Schindler's List over Tommy Lee Jones for The Fugitive.

I hate to pick on Dustin Hoffman again, but I'd take away his Oscar for Kramer vs. Kramer and give it to Roy Scheider for All That Jazz. At least somebody gave him one for Midnight Cowboy, so he has that one.

Just a few posts you disagreed that it was a minor part of the movie. Now it is. I'm not arguing that the film didn't touch on it, but you have a movie that came out the previous year, with the same lead actor, that actually focused on AIDS quite a bit, where Jenny's death echoed Terms of Endearment more than anything else.

I had to go back and review my posts to see if I had been contradictory. It's possible, but I couldn't find it.

I said "Gump was an uplifting piece, and its special effects were mezmerising. It was universally appealing, and told a really good story. AIDS was still a pretty new, frightening, and mysterious thing, and the movie brought some humanity to it."

Jenny certainly echoed Terms of Endearment. That's a quality observation, which I had never thought of before.

Ummm, no, Hoffman did NOT get one for MIDNIGHT COWBOY. John Wayne won that year for TRUE GRIT. Hoffman stormed out of the hall in anger after Wayne went up to get his award, the little putz.

Dafuq is you talking about?

I would not destroy it as I don't believe in that way of dealing with media, but I agree that it is a reprehensible movie with a horrible message. I will never forget how angry I became while watching the film in the theater (Hitler would have loved the film by the way).

A lot already mentioned. I think Mickey Rourke should have won for the Wrestler instead of Sean Penn for Milk. Fassbender should have won best actor for Shame in 2011 instead of Colin Firth for the Kings Speech.

Nothing new there. She was being punished by God for not following the status quo and being a promiscuous hippie slut who hung out with radicals and drug users.

Mad Max Fury Road over Spotlight.

More nominations for The Hateful Eight.

And Sicario.